wraggster
October 17th, 2013, 23:38
Intel has put back the delivery of its 14nm Broadwell desktop chip (http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/broadwell-intel-chips-haswell-129606) by a quarter because of a manufacturing issue that leaves it with too high a density of defects (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/16/intel_seeks_faster_product_deployment_but_delays_1 4nm_broadwell_chip/). The problem has been fixed, says CEO Brian Krzanich, who says, 'This happens sometimes in development phases.'"The good news is that it is just a defect density issue. A first round of tweaks failed to increase yield, but Intel seems to think a few more improvements to the 14nm process will result in acceptable yield.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/10/17/1933258/intels-14nm-broadwell-delayed-because-of-low-yield
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/10/17/1933258/intels-14nm-broadwell-delayed-because-of-low-yield